Overall-suspender buckle



T. L. MILLER. OVERALL SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-3, I920.

' Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

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OVERALL-SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

Application filed August 3, 1920. Serial No. 400,911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TAYLOR L. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cheyenne, in the county of Roger Mills and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Overall- Suspender Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to buckles for overall suspenders.

My object is to provide a device of this character of simple, cheap and durable construction and one in which the loop can be most easily attached to or detached from the buckle.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which 2- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved buckle in operative position on a suspender strap.

Fig. 2 shows the method of connecting or disconnecting the buckle and loop.

Fig. 3 shows a lower edge view of the buckle with the tooth bar in the position it occupies when the suspender strap is being withdrawn, the loop being omitted for clearness; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the buckle plate, with the difference in the position of the two sleeves thereof somewhat accentuated.

The numeral 1 indicates the buckle plate having the turned down sides 2 which support the tooth bar 8 of the buckle in an ordinary and well known manner. Any other ordinary or preferred means for gripping the suspender strap may be employed if desired, as that feature does not form any part of my invention.

The plate 1 has a cutaway portion 4, central of its lower edge, which forms said edge into two sections spaced from each other, and which in turn are bent to form two sleeves 5 not in alinement with each other but lying in spaced parallel planes.

The loop 6 is formed of a piece of spring metal bent upon itself and terminating at its upper end in the outwardly extending sections 7 which are received into the sleeves 5.

wardly turned ends 7 of the loop to be easily entered into the sleeve 5 or removed therefrom, as would not be the case if the sleeves 5 were in alinement wlth each other.

When the ends 7 of the loop are received into the sleeves 5, the upper end of the loop immediately adjacent said ends is received into the cutaway portion 4 of the plate 1.

The sleeves 5 are of larger internal diameter than the diameter of the ends 7 of the loop, whereby said ends have suiiicient lateral play in said sleeves to permitthe loop to hang in the same plane with the plate 1 and with the Suspender strap, or in a plane parallel therewith.

The sleeves 5 may be provided at their inner ends and on their inner sides with the ordinary sleeve shoulders 8 if desired, or the shoulders may be entirely omitted. In Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings I have shown the sleeves provided with these shoulders, while in Fig. 4 they are omitted.

When the sides of the loop 6 are pressed toward each other, as partially illustrated in Fig. 2, one of the ends 7 of the loop is withdrawn from its cooperating sleeve 5,

and when one end is withdrawn the other can be easily withdrawn: while entering one of the ends 7 in its appropriate loop and .then springing the two sides of the loop toward each other, the other end of the loop can be easily entered into the other sleeve.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the character described, a

buckle plate having spaced sleeves disposed at an angle thereto and out of alinement with each otherjand a spring loop having outwardly bent ends adapted to be received into said sleeves at their inner ends.

2. In a device of the character described, a buckle plate having at its lower edge a pair of sleeves spaced from each other at their inner ends and disposed in parallel planes atan angle to the plate; and a spring loop ring loop adapted to be relzet'ween sand spaced mnmtmg at is ugper end 1n e sections adapted to extend 012" whereof I MEX my signature.

' LGR L. MlLLER. 

